First Frost Of Winter

 Week commencing 22nd November 2021

Bit of a chilly one on Monday , just the four of us , plus the 7 pheasants roaming around the top of the drive as we arrived !

A few Pheasants on the drive and a few in the shrubbery

The frosty weather had caused the Deciduous trees by the car parking area to drop their leaves

Dave and Brian had the brushes out and the big bag.

2 big bags were filled from just the parking area and looking up there were still plenty more on the trees to come down.

Brian had a nice job in the sun, giving the kiosk a spruce up. windows wanted a clean inside and out, handset and imitation telephone equipment a good wipe over and paintwork also given a wipe over.

Pat gave the area a final cut of the year , and Vic was tidying up the gardens.

At the end of platform 1 another tree was dropping its leaves , Dave made a start on the clearing up.

Wednesday

Even less people today just the three of us , Peter, Dave and Pat.

Peter and Dave did a bit of gutter clearing then Peter headed down the drive.

Over on the platform 2 side a number of trees and branches had been removed . not being able to take them away they had been ground down to chippings . a very large heap of them was being racked flat by Pat , this was his second go at the heap it was that big !

And where does all the leaves etc. end up , on the bonfire of course.

Elsewhere our away team were down at Cheltenham station helping the relaying of the platform slabs.

 about 260 slabs had to be relayed, and with the help of outside contractors they virtually had been relayed by the end of Wednesday.

  Day1

Day 2

 Just the fiddly bits to do after Wednesday !

Again no Trains on the GWSR but a worthwhile trip down to Gloucester on the Tuesday gave me an opportunity to see one of the LMS's finest Locomotives .